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Well when I was just a young lad, my life about to start
                                   C               D
There was ever only one girl had a place inside my heart
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We walked the glen, we climbed the Ben, the forest was our bed,
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And many a morn I'd wake to find me kilt across her head


[Chorus]
              C                G                  C                  G
And I've been up and I've been down and I've been here and I've been there
                                   C            D
Never seen a bonny lassie quite as comely or as fair
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You can talk of pretty maidens and I don't bloody care
                    C            G    D      G
Cause tartan is the colour of my true love's hair


[Interlude]
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** whistling  **
G   C   G D G


[Verse 2]
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We walked the bonnie highlands, no matter what the weather
                                           C             D
And we'd shag each other senseless in that bonnie purple heather
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'Til one day we were frolicking and as my true love laughed,
G                 C              G      D        G
She fell into the workings of an old disused mineshaft


[Chorus]
           C             G               C               G
And I been up and I been down and I been here and I been there
                                C            D
Never seen a fallen lassie that gave me such despair
G                             C              G
And maybe it's the whisky and I don't bloody care
                    C            G    D      G
Cause tartan is the colour of my true love's hair


[Interlude]
G   G   C   G
** whistling  **
G   G   C   D
G   G   C   G
G   C   G D G


[Verse 3]
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Well I never did recover from that sad, sad, sorry day
                                C              D
So I left my native land to the shores of Amerikay
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And many a man has made remark about me ancient dress
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But I wear it in remembrance of the girl that I first kissed


[Chorus]
              C                G                  C                  G
And I've been up and I've been down and I've been here and I've been there
                                   C            D
Never seen a bonny lassie quite as comely or as fair
G                                        C           G
You can talk of pretty maidens and their Londonderry air
                    C            G    D      G
Cause tartan is the colour of my true love's hair


[Outro]
                    C            G    D      G
Yeah, tartan is the colour of my true love's hair
              C            G    D      G
Tartan is the colour of my true love's hair

G G C G
** whistling  **
G G C D
G G C G
G                   C            G    D      G
Cause tartan is the colour of my true love's hair